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Farewell

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I announce that I cease all development and activity in the programming universe indefinitely. My career has reached the turning point I was not expecting for at least another year, leaving me highly off guard and without laid-out plans for this hobby's continuity. I have begun a 5-year residency program in Neurosurgery which is clearly not compatible, time-wise, with programming.

I gave in all my passion for developing, and you gave me back your loyalty and trust, even when I did not deserve that much. Now it is the time for payback. I release all my present and past work as Open Source software, in the hope some talented developer will continue maintaining and expanding my vision of a modern, sleek forum software. The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.

I hereby thank Euan, kawaii, andrewjs18, Ben, Matt, Omar G., effone, Eric J., Devilshakerz, Wildcard, JordanMussi and all the other team members I have had the opportunity to work with when I was a MyBB team member. I thank Tomm M, my mentor, who inspired me to pick up coding with his piece-of-art plugins. And finally, I thank all of you MyBBoost subscribers who have helped me getting through my toughest university years economically.

Yours sincerely, Filippo

The 2017 final salute

Shade

30 Dec 2017 Edited
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Hi everyone, this has been a wonderful year for me personally and also for MyBB. We are heading towards a more modern version with lots of improvements and as a Team member I will do my best to contribute building it, while helping maintainers bringing the best out of their boards by deploying even more awesome plugins.

I would like to thank everyone who has supported me by either donating or buying a lifetime premium subscription. I am a med student and even the lowest amount of money helps me getting through this tremendously difficult path I'm currently walking on. I've got a total of 32 subscriptions and 2 donations in 2017, with a net income of 482,93 €. I've managed to buy 3 books and pay a month of rent! :D Thank you @SmartialArtist, @Smallo, @Glaumy, @Pololoko 125, @CarstenGG, @McGough, @alec_hs, @Sharree, @"KamikazeXeX ☣", @Eatmylol, @zyra, @karim50, @Sphinix, @Senatu polarservers.com, @Dangerous Derk Interactive, @tobza, @Nickon, @radex, @Max, @"Slaapkopamy", @HCharles, @WallBB, @kacperinjo, @Henrique, @Qwizi, @Hovatek, @GXD3S, @LielZ, @Halcon, @maxaki and @chack1172!

Looking forward to 2018 with great hope and dreams. Thanks to the recent update of FASTyle 2.3, I will manage to create a new shiny theme for MyBBoost faster than ever. I had already started this summer over a concept and cannot wait to deploy it for you; it might probably mark my landing in the MyBB premium themes world, because I will use a base theme to create beautiful ones much easier than usual!

The base theme is built upon UIKit, it'll be responsive and captivating. Here are some teasers:

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I wish you a Happy New Year and happy holidays! I will be back in mid February.

Shade
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